The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has sold out Taiwan to China and acts as a proxy for its masters in Beijing, members of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party said yesterday.
“For our soldiers and all Taiwanese, the KMT’s existence is the biggest threat to national defense,” Taiwan Statebuilding Party Secretary-General Wang Hsing-huan (王興煥) told a news conference in Taipei to mark Armed Forces Day.
“KMT officials are betraying Taiwan, colluding with China to sell us out and paving the way for Chinese Communist Party [CCP] rule here,” said Wang.
Photo: Yang Cheng-yu, Taipei Times
“The KMT has committed too many evil deeds, from its past authoritarian regimes carrying out massacres, accumulating vast wealth and state monopolies, and denying freedom and personal rights,” he said. “Now it is acting as a proxy for China.”
“Taiwanese must create a future without the KMT, so the armed forces can have unity and the will to safeguard the homeland,” he said.
Liu Hang-yuan (劉航遠), a Taiwan Statebuilding Party candidate for Kaohsiung city councilor, told the news conference that he served in the military, retiring from the Marine Corps, and his grandfather fled China for Taiwan with KMT troops in the late 1940s after the CCP’s victory in the Chinese Civil War.
“My family is from China, and I am a third-generation waishengren (外省人),” Liu said. “I was born in Taiwan and grew up here. We all must identify with people here, knowing that this is our homeland and that we must safeguard Taiwan.”
“"If elected, I would push for an all-civilian defense, as that is important to enhance Taiwan’s military preparedness and to instill in all Taiwanese mental strength and the capability to defend the homeland against the enemy,” he said.
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